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2021
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
​The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
2020
Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
​Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
2019
​Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

2018
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

2017
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
 
2016
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
 
2015
Ruby by Cynthia Bond
 
2014
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
 
2012
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
 
2010
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2009
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
 
2008
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
 
2007
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
 
2006
Night by Elie Wiesel
 
2005
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
 
2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
 
2003
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
 
2002
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Sula by Toni Morrison
 
2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
 
2000
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
1999
Vinegar Hill by A Manette Ansay
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Jewel by Bret Lott
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
 
1998
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
 
1997
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
 
1996
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison